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we've invested in your washington office here. i think decisions we make over the next four years are going to have profound implications over the health of our business and our tooblet really accomplish what we want to which is to get to these rural customers. >> time for one more question. >> if you could have a wish for the f.c.c. to tackle any issue you want, what would it be? >> i would really like -- i'm going to give you two things. first, to deal with this have you to have issue and the short run issue is the $300 million they made available which was an excellent idea. unfortunately only 1/3 of that is going to be used. so $200 million is going to go unspent that could serve america. the same issue will be in front of us in 2013. that's what wind streemsswaver all about. are there other ways to think about this other than the $775 limit. and beyond that, i think getting on to the model we need going forward for universal funding, the industry has put forth a modut
we've invested in your washington office here. i think decisions we make over the next four years are going to have profound implications over the health of our business and our tooblet really accomplish what we want to which is to get to these rural customers. >> time for one more question. >> if you could have a wish for the f.c.c. to tackle any issue you want, what would it be? >> i would really like -- i'm going to give you two things. first, to deal with this have you to...
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we've, um, invested in our washington office here. i think decisions that we're going to makeover the next four years are going to have profound implications on the health of our business in that time period and our ability to really accomplish what we want to, which is to get to these rural customers. >> host: time for one more question, paul barbagallo. >> well, if you could, um, if you could have a wish for the fcc to tackle any issue you want, what would it be? >> guest: i would really like -- i'm going to give you two things. >> two wishes. >> guest: first, to deal with this usf issue in the short run issue and the $300 million that they made available to t
we've, um, invested in our washington office here. i think decisions that we're going to makeover the next four years are going to have profound implications on the health of our business in that time period and our ability to really accomplish what we want to, which is to get to these rural customers. >> host: time for one more question, paul barbagallo. >> well, if you could, um, if you could have a wish for the fcc to tackle any issue you want, what would it be? >> guest: i...
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joining us here in our washington studio is paul barbagallo of bloomberg. professor noll, first of all, what was your role or activity during the breakup of at&t, and what led to that decision? >> guest: well, the roots of the antitrust case were in a presidential task force that was formed during the johnson administration in the late 1960s called the telecommunications policy task force. it had concluded that the telecommunications industry, at least the part of it that was in the federal jurisdiction, could be competitive and made recommendations both to the -- mainly to the federal communications commission about how to cause that to happen. then when the nixon administration came along, the holdover staff in the antitrust division after watching for a couple of years decided to pursue antitrust rather than fcc regulation as the means to introduce competition. my role was that i was on both the telecommunications policy task force, and i was one of the outside economists advising the department of justice during the mid '70s when the case was actually b
joining us here in our washington studio is paul barbagallo of bloomberg. professor noll, first of all, what was your role or activity during the breakup of at&t, and what led to that decision? >> guest: well, the roots of the antitrust case were in a presidential task force that was formed during the johnson administration in the late 1960s called the telecommunications policy task force. it had concluded that the telecommunications industry, at least the part of it that was in the...
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there are always people arguing in washington. but if you actually look, the latest government statistics are 32% of the people don't even have landline telephones anymore. they use cell phones. the competition out there, in terms of the internet. 4-g is coming in. i would be willing to predict that in 10 or 15 years, the majority of youth on the internet will be over mobile phones and cell phones throughout the world. >> host: if you expand that to wireless devices so you don't limit it to cell phones -- >> guest: that's what i mean. tablets, you name it, exactly. >> host: i think the really important point about your question is that the mindset of the world well into the mid-1990s was that wireline access was stuck on poles or buried in the ground was the key to understanding competition in telecommunications. the intriguing part of the wireless story is how very few people inside the industry -- that that is why the mckenzie mckinsey report listed, it wasn't just judge green and the fcc who did not understand the potential of
there are always people arguing in washington. but if you actually look, the latest government statistics are 32% of the people don't even have landline telephones anymore. they use cell phones. the competition out there, in terms of the internet. 4-g is coming in. i would be willing to predict that in 10 or 15 years, the majority of youth on the internet will be over mobile phones and cell phones throughout the world. >> host: if you expand that to wireless devices so you don't limit it...
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joining us in the washington studio is paul. professor noll, first of all, what with your activity during the breakup of at&t and what led to that decision? >> the antitrust case was formed during the johnson administration the late 1960's and a presidential task force called the telecommunications policy task force. it concluded the telecommunications industry, the part in federal jurisdiction, should be competitive and made recommendations both -- mainly to the fcc about how to cause that to happen. then when the knicks and the administration can along, the holdover staff of the antitrust division decided to pursue it antitrust rather than it fcc regulation as the means to introduce competition. i was on both the telecommunication policy task force and i was one of the outside economists advising the department of justice during the mid-1970s when the case was actually being shipped. >> professor hausman? >> i did not come into the proceeding until 1982, and thereafter when the antitrust division decided to review it about thr
joining us in the washington studio is paul. professor noll, first of all, what with your activity during the breakup of at&t and what led to that decision? >> the antitrust case was formed during the johnson administration the late 1960's and a presidential task force called the telecommunications policy task force. it concluded the telecommunications industry, the part in federal jurisdiction, should be competitive and made recommendations both -- mainly to the fcc about how to...